Completed - FINNISH - Social issues, Drama - 102 minutes
An edgy and warm drama about suburban teenagers, who unexpectedly have to deal with grown up problems of pregnancy, while extreme right ideas enter their multicultural neighbourhood.
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Selma VILHUNEN Writer(s) : Kirsikka SAARI Cast : Jere RISTSEPPÄ, Rosa HONKONEN, Pihla VIITALA, Katja KÜTTNER, Ville HAAPASALO, Abshir Sheikh NUR Producer(s) : Elli TOIVONIEMI (TUFFI FILMS), Venla HELLSTEDT (TUFFI FILMS)
STUPID YOUNG HEART is a story about the first love of lightly built, carefree LENNI (15) and gorgeous and popular KIIRA (16). Not yet even properly in a relationship, they discover that they are expecting a baby, and decide to keep it – partly as a statement to their families who have lost touch with what goes on in the teenagers’ lives. Lenni then has nine months to become a man. Having grown up without a father figure, Lenni receives some yearned for adult attention from an unlikely friend JANNE (40), a member of a right wing activist group. After taking part in a scrambled attack on a local Mosque, while Kiira is rushed to the hospital to give birth, Lenni realises that he can be a man in his own way, even if he never had a chance to be a child himself.
Country(ies) : FINLAND, NETHERLANDS, SWEDEN
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